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The Blood (Vitae, in this case) Is The Life, after all. So it should be able to affect aspects of another's Life, properly shaped, yes? But Life/Vitae has no mind of its own, so it requires guidance from a Divine one. The PC's Theban rites could simply be using Divine intercession to shape the inherent Life energies of Vitae toward specific purposes.

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I'm guessing no. I actually wrote a homebrew merit that enabled it, though....

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Isn't that what making it an Imbued Item is for? Imbued Items can cast the same effect repeatedly (that is what they are, after all). (GRI?)...

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Which, yeah, you could do, but it doesn't look like that is needed via the +2 Reach option....

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Just all 10 Arcana, actually. It looks like the +2 Reach option for lasting is enough that it doesn't need to get pushed all the way to Indefinite Duration....

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Dispel Magic has a +2 Reach option for Lasting Duration. Otherwise the target spell is only suppressed for Dispel Magic's Duration....

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Well, Alchemists are still human (maybe?), so unless the Promethean is using Disquetism Distillations to Scapegoat them, the Alchemist can just say "but X is a monster" and according to the (preview of) The Code, the Hunters pretty much have to take their side in the conflict.

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I think progress to human-only should occur quicker to track with current Requiem, and no-just-any-human as well. 7-8 is too easy to replicate, it isn't really a restriction....

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I suppose one question is: does it require a sentient user? Or can you rig it to a switch and a drinking bird toy?...

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Heh. I was actually mentally working on a 1-2 combo for extreme TF:V...

Surtr Orbital Cannon
Researchers with FORT found a swirling rift to what they described as a "a thermo-nuclear hell-dimension" caged in an overlapping field of containment wards. Only limited amounts of heat and light escape the confines of the field, reducing its practicality for power generation. When some tech momentarily disrupted one of the fields, however, part of the sphere became a circle, and everything along that vector was vaporized in nuclear fire.
After discovering how to open...

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Depends on what other Hacks you are making. Just based off core mechanics, maybe you could give them a bonus to resisting Frenzy, since they wear their monster on their skins instead of in their hearts?...

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Furthermore, this is only a recent possibility. only available in developed regions, and is expensive (as pointed out). It pretty much isn't an option for most newly Embraced vampires anyways, and will only last 50 years at most before they need better options.

Further, you are still a blood-drinking corpse-person prone to rages and spontaneous combustion in the sunlight....

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Hey, if you can give them a reasonable justification to be the secret rulers of the world, by all mean. I'd be very interested.



What kind of Relic would they use to accomplish that? Or keep the Arisen and their Utterances under wraps (pun intended)? Or suppress Mages?

Maybe something like?

The Duplicator (•••••)
The discovery of this Relic secured the Aegis Kai Doru's eventual triumph. This ornate mirror (unfortunately made of very distinguishable, unidentifiable materials), can actually do what was thought impossible - reliably create...

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Or the Gentry simply asked them to do something. Something seemingly simple, yet was greatly satisfied when they agreed. They could have even already accomplished it, and are now dreading the repercussions, fearing their deed exposed, or have promptly forgotten about it....

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I'm thinking an Imbued Item with Dispel Magic might be best, set to active upon spells targeting the area (might want some Fate in there to make it Conditional upon non-Cabal spells). It would deplete its Mana reserves by 1 with each casting. At Prime 3, you can make the casting Instant and the duration Lasting....

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Yay! I literally had a group just like them, but US based for historical elements (they were later absorbed into various other Hunter organizations like the Aegis Kai Doru and Loyalists of Thule, after they were "ops, did I leak that" betrayed by Task Force: Valkyrie over a personality conflict among upper management)....

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150) Falling Star
One night, Awakened astronomers observed an incoming object, possibly a meteor streaking close to Earth. Until it shifted course and impacted nearby. Checking the news and comparing with Sleeper fellow astronomers, it became clear that it was invisible to those still shrouded by the Lie. You have ventured (or were sent) out to investigate the impact site. The area shows less damage than an object of that size and speed should have inflicted. At the center, buried under the recently fallen impact ejecta you find what can only be described as a ruined space-ship. Bristling...

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So, as a small take on setting shards for Hunter, how would you see/design one with one Conspiracy in control of the world? They are the undisputed masters of the shadows, able to bend governments to their will worldwide, and monsters tremble at their attention. Other Hunter organizations may or may not exist, but even if they do, they are niche and lesser that this one. How might the world look? How would this affect supernaturals? In what way would the Conspiracy itself change? How might it have secured such an advantage (improved Endowments, plot events, etc.)?

What would the world...

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Reasoned, but it seems like the others should get some sort of benefit to compensate. Maybe they are more "stable" since there isn't such a pull between what they were and what they now are?...